Hi!

I have a huge problem. For some reasons, my .bat files arn't threaten as batch files. When I double click on them, notepad opens up. Also there is no option to run it on the context menu.

When I go to Extras, Folderoptions and Filetypes on my computer, I can edit the .bat entry, but I don't know what to put there!?

What do I have to do, so that *.bat files are *.bat files again and are executed as supposed.

Thanks for your help.

Try to delete this extension from File Types options then it should re-register itself and it should work..

or you can try change the extention .bat to .cmd .

I think somehow I disabled the handling of bat files. Unfortunately it has to be long ago and I have no idea at all how I did it.

The problem with it is, that some installers use bat files, unfortunately that does not really work on my system, now...

So is there a way to get the system to handle bat files again

Make sure these entries in the Registry are correct.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.bat

= "batfile" (or whatever it's named)

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile (or whatever it's named)

= "Batch File"

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shell\

= "Open"

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shell\open\command

= ""%1" %*" (the %1 is itself quoted)

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shell\edit\command

= "C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE %1"

I think somehow I disabled the handling of bat files. Unfortunately it has to be long ago and I have no idea at all how I did it.

The problem with it is, that some installers use bat files, unfortunately that does not really work on my system, now...

So is there a way to get the system to handle bat files again

Did you tried what I said to you?

I deleted it. now there is no .bat key in the registry. Unfortunately it did nont reregister itself either.

Can you please tell me how exactly I have to create the reg keys?

Here are the entries from my system:

Copy the text below between the dotted lines, but not the dotted lines themselves. Open Notepad and paste it in. Save the result in a suitable location as batfile.reg - making sure that the default .txt extension doesn't appear in the file name.

Double-click on the saved .reg file to merge the contents.

Restart.

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.bat]

@="batfile"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.bat\PersistentHandler]

@="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile]

@="MS-DOS Batch File"

"EditFlags"=hex:30,04,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\DefaultIcon]

@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\

00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,\

65,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,2d,00,31,00,35,\

00,33,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shell\edit]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shell\edit\command]

@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\

00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,4e,00,4f,00,\

54,00,45,00,50,00,41,00,44,00,2e,00,45,00,58,00,45,00,20,00,25,00,31,00,00,\

00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shell\open]

"EditFlags"=hex:00,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shell\open\command]

@="\"%1\" %*"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shell\print]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shell\print\command]

@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\

00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,4e,00,4f,00,\

54,00,45,00,50,00,41,00,44,00,2e,00,45,00,58,00,45,00,20,00,2f,00,70,00,20,\

00,25,00,31,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shellex]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shellex\DropHandler]

@="{86C86720-42A0-1069-A2E8-08002B30309D}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\PifProps]

@="{86F19A00-42A0-1069-A2E9-08002B30309D}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\ShimLayer Property Page]

@="{513D916F-2A8E-4F51-AEAB-0CBC76FB1AF8}"

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Ok, that worked. Thank you all!